 Tucumán - Casa de Gobierno |
 Tucumán tree flower |
 Tafí del Valle |
 Quilmes Ruins |
 thick rock walls for defensive purposes |
 view of Quilmes settlement from hillside |
 desert cactus |
 hillside lookout post? |
 prickly green baby cactus |
 Quilmes valley flanked by hills |
 over 5000 Quilmes indians lived at this site |
 Pucará walls |
 Quebrada de Cafayate |
 reddish sandstone formations |
 Arid landscape |
 tonights' asado |
 Río de las Conchas |
 Quebrada brush |
 rivers have carved and exposed the canyon |
 multicolored strata |
 Quebrada de Cafayate |
 our hired transport |
 lush, green canyon floors |
 a trio of cows are specks in the distance |
 El Anfiteatro |
 the exit / entrance into the amphitheater |
 Sarah and the silence |
 Garganta del Diablo |
 journey back to Cafayate |
 blurring shrubs and defined rocks |
 Cafayate car rally |
 biking in Cafayate |
 Sarah's idea of bike riding |
 Cafayate winery |
 relaxing at Hostal del Valle |
 Salta - door to the Carmelite nunnery |
 Convento de San Bernardo |
 hike down Cerro San Bernardo |
 view of Salta |
 Guemes monument |
 Hotel Petit with the Teleférico in the background |
 Plaza 9 de Julio in Salta |
 colonial Salta |
 19th century cathedral |
 Iglesia San Francisco |
 Iglesia San Francisco |
 quad in San Lorenzo |
 the beginning of our drive to Cachi |
 twisting through the mountains |
 more rugged canyon |
 green rock sediment with our hired car |
 chapel at the top |
 views of Cuesta de Obispo |
 in the Valles Calchaquíes |
 Cachi plaza |
 cordón (cactus) wood rafters in the Iglesia San José |
 verdant Cachi |
 Cachi cemetery |
 Cachi cemetery high above the settlement |
 rock graves |
 coffin shaped grave |
 Inner Cachi |
 Cachi farmland |
 Cachi farmland |
 Dan dining on regional Cachi cuisine |
 Iglesia San Jose |
 pink mountains of Los Cordones |
 desert valley |
 Cordones cacti |
 65,000 hectares of parkland |
 Parque Nacional Los Cordones |
 drinkin' and drivin' |
 The enchanted valley! |
 grazing sheep |
 Encantado |
 Mate here |
 Dan at the top of a hillside of caves |
 ridged cliffs on the way back to Salta |
 Protesters in San Salvador de Jujuy |
 the other side - police and horse barricade |
 charms displayed in a Jujuy cathedral |
 carved detail on a Spanish baroque pulpit |
 Peña El Farolito with Sheena, Rod, and Jose |
 Purmamarca |
 Polychrome Cerro de los Siete Colores |
 trail of the Colorados |
 loving the desert heat! |
 La Paleta del Pintor |
 Maimara |
 Maimara cemetery with the Painter's Palette |
 our golden tag along |
 tea in Tilcara on the porch of the Hostal Malka |
 our Asado feast |
 Chachima, Cecilia, Memo and Jose |
 Cecelia and the local beggar |
 Tilcara view of the Quebrada de Humahuaca |
 a mummy in the Museo Arquológico Dr Eduardo Casanova |
 indigenous totem |
 sunshine bush |
 hanging on the porch with Memo and Cecelia |
 Tilcara flowers |
 the bridge to El Pucará |
 re-constructed pre-Columbian fortification |
 ancient site above the Río Grande Valley |
 shy girl |
 soccer in the canyon |
 the way to the Garganta del Diablo |
 lazy pitstop |
 Tilcara street |
 Malka Hostal |
 Humuhuaca Cabildo |
 view of Humuhuaca ffrom the Monumento a la Independencia |
 virgin saint looking over the valley |
 Kooky Cowboy |
 Marcelo and Sarah |
 awkward rider for sure |
 beautiful Humuhuaca cliffs and plateaus |
 view of Marcelo's farm |
 Happy gas for the young and old - La Quiaca |